Born
in Russia in 1966, she came to Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo as an
orphaned cub in 1967. She was the mother of six cubs and in the Guinness World Book of Records as the oldest known living polar bear, surviving twice the normal life expectancy for a polar bear.

November 17, 1981 - Howard Pawley's NDP defeat Sterling Lyon's Progressive Conservatives. Lyon had been premier of Manitoba for four years.

November 17, 1840 - James Evans,
a British teacher and missionary, invents a 9 character alphabet for
Cree and Inuit languages while at Norway House. That alphabet is still
used today.